They open the thing, people will go about their business, and if they mind their own business, this whole affair just goes away.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...> wrote: > > My understanding is that the area doesn't have an Islamic community, at least of > significant number, certainly not worthy of one hundred million dollars that > could hold up to a thousand worshipers. Yes, I'm aware there are other mosques > in the general area that nobody seems to care about. So the Cordoba project is > to accommodate the over flow of the other mosques? > > > > ________________________________ > From: authfriend jst...@... > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 11:25:59 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque > > Â > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: > > > > Why would anybody spend one hundred million dollars to build > > a community center and mosque in an area that doesn't have > > an Islamic community? > > It does have an Islamic community, plus many Muslims who > work in the area. (And no mosque in the building, just a > prayer space.) > > There are already two mosques in the general area, but they > don't have nearly enough room for the Muslims who would use > them for prayer. There has been a prayer space in the old > Burlington Coat Factory building for some time for those who > can't get into the other mosques to pray. (Muslims are > required to pray five times a day.) > > Â Â <How do those > > that support this effort feel about Carmelite nuns wanting > > to build a convent next to Auschwitz to pray for the souls > > of those murder there? Are they as outraged as Jews from > > around the world at the insensitivity of it? > > That was a different situation in many respects. Just for one > thing, the convent took over a building at the site that had > been used to store the gas for the gas chambers, made it into > a convent, and stayed there for *nine years* until they were > finally ordered to leave. > > The community center (in case you hadn't heard this yet) is > not to be built on the ground zero site, it's two blocks > away in a business district. If you know that area of town, > you know it's a different world from the ground zero site. >
